CÉLEG

Le Club des bandes dessinées (CBD) was founded March 29, 1962, and was the first French association dedicated to the study of comics. The president of CBD was Francis Lacassin with Alain Resnais and Évelyne Sullerot for vice presidents. Some of the members were: Pierre Couperie, Jacques Champreux , Alain Dorémieux , Jacques Lob , Delphine Seyrig , Pierre Zucca , Alejandro Jodorowsky and Lee Falk. The club was born from a discussion held in 1961-1962 in issues 90-98 of the magazine "Fiction", and their bulletin was Giff-Wiff. On 5 November 1964, the CBD became the Centre d'études des littératures d'expression graphique (CÉLEG).

In February 1965, with the Italian "l'Instituto di scienza della communicazioni di massa", CÉLEG organized the first International Exhibition of Comics (Salone Internazionale dei Comics) in Bordighera. The Comics Convention was dedikated to the memory of Phil Davis and headed by the legendary Professor Luigi Volpicelli. At June 9, 1964, Alain Resnais was in New York and made an interview with Lee Falk for Giff-Wiff #22 and invited Lee Falk to Bordighera. The congress (the 21st and 22th) was attended by eminent culture personalities such as Alain Resnais, Federico Fellini, Umberto Eco, Alberto Giordano, Evelyne Sullerot, Roberto Giammanco, Fausto Antonini, Francis Lacassin and a court of fans. Among the comic artist were Lee Falk, Al Capp, David Pascal and Alfred Andriola. CÉLEG organized the second edition in Lucca at September 1966.

Claude Moliterni and Pierre Couperie broke away from CÉLEG in 1966 to form the la Société civile d'étude et de recherche des littératures dessinées (Socerlid), and to produce the review "Phénix". CÉLEG disappears in 1967.

CÉLEG Exhibitions

• June 3-15 1966: Mandrake & Le Fantôme, Centre culturel américain de Paris

Sources

• Charles Ameline, Généalogie d'un interdiscours sur la bande dessinée, January 9 2009
• Lacassin Francis et Tercinet Alain (1964), Pour prendre conge de Phil Davis, Giff.Wiff no 12 1964, 11-16

References

• Giff-Wiff est, à l'origine, un animal imaginaire apparu dans la bande dessinée Pim, Pam et Poum en 1935
• Entre la plèbe et l'élite, les ambitions contraires de la bande dessinée, J.-N. Lafargue, éd. Atelier Perrousseaux 2012. pp96-105. ( ISBN 9782911220425 )
• Mémoires: sur les chemins qui marchent, par Francis Lacassin, éd. du Rocher, 2006, ( ISBN 2268059898 )